Education in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents VII
3. Introduction. Change of paradigms – New paradoxes. Recontextualizing language and linguistics 1
4. Part One: Language in the context of cognition
5. Instru-mentality 17
6. The dynamics of a usage-based approach 29
7. Part Two: Usage-based lexical semantics and semantic change
8. Semasiology and onomasiology 47
9. Education in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary 81
10. Bueno, a window opener 97
11. How does context produce metaphors? 109
12. Blending effects in bahuvrihi compounds 117
13. Metonymic relationships among actuality, modality, evaluation, and emotion 129
14. Part Three: Recontextualizing grammar
15. On the origins of cognitive grammar 149
16. The linguistic representations of agency in causal chains 169
17. Much in all as: The anatomy of a strange expression 189
18. Descriptive and discursive organization in cognitive grammar 205
19. Part Four: The importance of socio-cultural context
20. Language in the mind and in the community 221
21. Cognitive sociolinguistics, language systems and the fall of empires 237
22. Cultural cognitive models of language variation 253
23. Googling Toubon 275
24. Part Five: Methodological challenges of contextual parameters
25. Four challenges for usage-based linguistics 297
26. The role of quantitative methods in cognitive linguistics 311
27. Does gender-related variation still have an effect, even when topic and (almost) everything else is controlled? 327
28. Recontextualizing language complexity 347
29. A quantitative analysis of qualitative free response data 361
30. Index 385